The final nail in the coffin for the Sutter deal?
The oddball Tony Gallagher likes it!
Title: Gallagher: Sutter deal one of the best in recent Canucks history
Gallagher on Pittsburgh deal
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The difficulty in pulling this off more often, of course, is getting yourself into the right position and then finding a team which has the assets you covet, and having stumbled into same the position the Pittsburgh Penguins found themselves in before this trade.
Positioning yourself to take advantage of teams that are over the salary cap and must pare down before the start of the season is something the Canucks have done successfully in the past, and other teams as well have found this a winning formula.
After all, when you are making a trade with a team that has to make a trade, the odds are very much in your favour that success will be forthcoming.
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Good take Tony ... however Benning is quoted as saying he was approached with the idea by Rutherford at the draft. The Penguins targeted your favourite team, not the other way around.